Apple hopes to 'reinvent the textbook' via iPad (photos)

Company unveils iBooks 2 for digital textbooks, iBooks Author for self-publishing, and an expansion of iTunes U for online courses.

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Apple announced today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. The company also introduced iBooks Author for self-publishing and an expansion of iTunes U for online courses.

Six universities--Duke, Stanford, Yale, MIT, The Open University, and HACC, which is central Pennsylvania's community college system--have already had access to the updated iTunes U and have created more than 100 online courses.